What is Cisco vPC?
A Cisco Virtual Port Channel (vPC) is an etherchannel formed of links that are physically connected to two different Cisco Nexus 7000 or 9000 Series devices to appear as a single port channel by a …
Nexus Dashboard
What is the Nexus Dashboard? The Nexus dashboard is a single pane of glass console that streamlines data center network operations and management! …
How to run a Cisco Nexus 9000v Switch on a Windows 10 laptop with Vagrant and Virtualbox
The Nexus 9000v switch is a free virtual edition of the very popular Nexus 9K switch. It is free to use and will run most of the features of a real Nexus. This post will detail how I run the Cisco …
Cisco Nexus 9000 Software Upgrade NX-OS Tutorial
Nexus 9000 software upgrade using my AirConsole Bluetooth Wireless Console Cable Each Nexus 9000 switch is shipped with Cisco NX-OS software. The NX-OS software consists of one NXOS image. The image …
Cisco VXLAN Configuration Lab using Nexus 9000V DCNM & Ansible
This post details my approach to setting up a POC lab to prove the operation of Nexus 9K switches doing VXLAN using BGP EVPN, it will also show how I deployed and verified the configurations and …
VXLAN Terminology
In this VXLAN tutorial, we will be going through all the acronyms and VXLAN terminology used when configuring and deploying a VXLAN network. VXLAN – Virtual Extensible LAN Next we need to …
What is VXLAN? – Virtual Extensible LAN
VXLAN, Virtual Extensible LAN is an encapsulation protocol that runs an overlay network over an existing layer 3 infrastructure or underlay network. VXLAN ( RFC7348 ) is used in the Cisco …
How to remove interface from vsan database Nexus 5548
Whilst setting up a couple Nexus 5548’s I came upon an issue where I had to remove an interface from the vsan database. vsan database vsan 1000 interface vfc1 vsan 1000 interface vfc2 vsan 1000 …
Cisco Nexus 5548 SFP Validation Failed
During a recent Nexus deployment I came across a very small problem which was very easily solved. When doing a sh int brief on the Nexus 5548 I saw the following Eth1/17 1 eth access …